Oh how I love the offseason!  You have the draft.  You have OTAs.  You have minicamp.  So much hope.  So much potential.  Then you have the preseason.  Teams like the Panthers go 4-0.  Houston goes 3-1.  Oakland goes 4-1.  The Colts go 1-3.  Da go 2-2.  Hopes are riding super high for so many teams, then...Bears

REALITY CHECK!!! OH!! OH... OOOOHHHHH!!!!!

It's funny how people can really, trully forget how much their team sucks between the end of the season and the beginning of the next season.  Last year's Super Bowl teams had a combined preseason record of 3-5, so let's not get too excited when these teams are in shorts and helmets.  Let's also not get too hyped up over that existential word "potential".  "Potential" kills teams.  "Production" wins championships.

I'm not gonna bash any other teams, but here's what I do know about Da Bears, and the quarterback situation in general:

Rex Grossman absolutely, positively, unequivocally will be better.  Guaranteed!  Why do I say that?

Grossman had seven games last year with a QB rating of at least 100 or more.  Two of those games had a rating of over 130.  He had one at 98.5 which is an ass scratch away from 100.  That is not potential.  That is actual game play.  We know what he is capable of when he plays his best.

Grossman had five games which totally skewed his average rating.  Games with ratings of 10.4, 36.8, 23.6, 1.3, and 0.0 ratings respectively.  It has been Grossman's mission in the offseason to work on his footwork and his pocket presence, making a commitment to stepping into his passes and not throw off of his back foot.  His mechanics were the cause of most of his ills at the quarterback position.  Many of the bad throws he made were actually good decisions, but bad throws or mechanics.  Mechanics can always be corrected, but dumb quarterbacking is harder to fix.  There will be no Kyle Orton playbook for Grossman.

Finally, and to cut this short (because I can elaborate all day), the addition of Greg Olsen at TE and the commitment of Ced Benson at RB, coupled with the addition of Devin Hester on offense will give Grossman more weapons than he could imagine and with better mechanics, he will be bringing a gun to a knife fight most games.  Berrian and Bradley will be sick deep threats if both stay healthy, and with Olsen and Clark in the middle and Hester looming, this will be an awesome year. 

Grossman will make the Pro Bowl this season.

GO BEARS!!!